Tillage
'Non-organic farmers are starting to need to think like organic farmers'
In farming, the conventional and organic world might not seem the easiest bedfellows, but they met in peace for a...
Tillage
In farming, the conventional and organic world might not seem the easiest bedfellows, but they met in peace for a...
Rural Life
Apprentice organic growers are being sought for an internship programme that will be run by the Organic Growers of Ireland...
Rural Life
With its ‘glamping’ – glamorous camping – and guesthouse accommodation, Rock Farm, Slane, is brimful of enterprise. The focus in...
Environment
Andrew Doyle, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, yesterday attended the first of a...
Beef
Various representatives of the Irish agricultural industry were today (November 4) told that it would be impossible to meet our...
Beef
ABP, the Larry Goodman owned food group, has been cleared to take sole control of Good Herdsmen – Ireland’s largest...
Agri-Business
Cold-pressed, organic rapeseed oil – produced on an organic farm in Co. Kilkenny – found its way onto the menu...
Rural Life
A Co. Cork organic farmer whose apple juice is enjoying the taste of success, has been awarded funding from the...
Tillage
Organic gluten-free oats became an addition to a Laois farmer’s enterprise, after his daughter posed a question. Kevin Scully from...
Rural Life
Seven years on from an accident on his farm, which left him with a serious head injury, Dominic Leonard is...
Beef
Stuart and Jean Kingston, a husband-and-wife team, run an organic store-to-beef and tillage enterprise in Farnanes, Co. Cork. And just...
Beef
Disillusioned and struggling to make a go of conventional beef finishing, Co. Monaghan farmer Mark Gillanders decided to make the...
Rural Life
World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms or ‘WWOOFing’ as it’s known, is being availed of by a growing number of Irish...
Opinion
By John McHugh, dairy farmer, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Many farmers have and continue to invest heavily in building the phosphorous...
Rural Life
A US dairy farmer had his herd decimated by a lightning strike last weekend. Jared Blackwelder, who keeps organic dairy...
Opinion
By John McHugh, dairy farmer, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Recently, soil scientists from Rothemsted Research in the UK, and Wageningen University...
Opinion
By John McHugh, dairy farmer, Portlaoise, Co. Laois Increasingly we witness agricultural leaders antagonistically pitted against environmental leaders, taunting each...
Dairy
Darren and Gerard Grennan milk 94 cows under an organic farming system in Lismoyney, Clara, Co. Offaly. On Thursday, the...